PJDC Receives the CPBS Collective Grant

1/22/25: In 2024, PJDC was the recipient of a grant to train community violence intervention workers in Los Angeles County as part of the Los Angeles Peer to Peer Learning Academy.  Together with Abraham Medina of Organizing Roots, Executive Director Brooke Harris taught eight day-long workshops on improving community safety through effective advocacy in the youth justice system for community intervention workers  The workshops focused on the juvenile justice system, and effective advocacy methods for helping youth successfully move through the system. The workshops also taught intervention workers how to bring principles of transformative relationship building into practice in the court system to accompany youth in achieving true change and diversion away from the formal court system.

The Los Angeles County Peer-to-Peer Learning Academy is a training pilot program developed by the Los Angeles County Office of Violence Prevention (OVP), in the Department of Public Health and managed by The Community Based Public Safety Collective. The training is funded with federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars in partnership with the California Community Foundation, as part of the Trauma Prevention Partnerships project.

Thank you to our partners Abraham Medina, James Willock and Shakur Brown of Healing the Hood in Sacramento, who helped co-facilitate, and the Community Based Public Safety Collective for their support and leadership.